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Joe Biden: “Give me a break. I mean, the first thing you do as president, your chief responsibility as commander in chief is to…”

On the recordJuly 15, 2021
Give me a break. I mean, the first thing you do as president, your chief responsibility as commander in chief is to protect the American people. And if you can’t protect them in the Capitol Building, where can you protect them? And this guy just sat on his hands, did nothing, except a lame Twitter video hours too late, which did nothing.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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Criticism of Donald Trump's inaction during the Capitol riots.

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